Matter of Hilliard

DECISION ON APPLICATION FOR ORDER DIRECTING DEBTORS’ COUNSEL TO REMIT CERTAIN FUNDS TO DEBTORS’ MORTGAGEE AND FOR A REVIEW OF COUNSEL’S FEE

HOWARD SCHWARTZBERG, Bankruptcy Judge.

The United States Trustee for the, Southern District of New York has applied to this court for an order directing the Law Clinics of Mott & Gray, P.C., counsel for the debtors in this Chapter 13 case, to turn over to the mortgagee of the debtors’ residence all monthly mortgage payments that Mott & Gray has retained since February, 1982. Mott & Gray had instructed the debtors to make their post-petition mortgage checks…